Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

East and South East Asia

About 11% of the total population of East Asia including China is undernourished via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013. The state of food insecurity in the world 2013: The multiple dimensions of food security. Rome: FAO. (Available from http://www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/)

E. Asian population will increase towards 2050 but decline below today's levels by 2100 via @cgiarclimate

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[UN-DESA] United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2013. World Population prospects, the 2012 revision, highlights and advance tables. Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. New York. (Available from http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Documentation/pdf/WPP2010_Highlights.pdf)

Food inequality in East Asia between rich and poor will increase by 2100. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Alexandratos N, Bruinsma J. 2012. World agriculture towards 2030/2050: the 2012 revision. ESA Working Paper 12-03. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/ap106e/ap106e.pdf)

As East Asia's agriculture industrialises, food waste increases. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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[FAO] Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2013b. Food wastage footprint. Impacts on natural resources. Summary Report. Rome, Italy: FAO (Available from http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf).

East Asia faces extreme risks from storms and floods as climate changes. Get the #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Handmer, J., Y. Honda, Z.W. Kundzewicz, N. Arnell, G. Benito, J. Hatfield, I.F. Mohamed, P. Peduzzi, S. Wu, B. Sherstyukov, K. Takahashi, and Z. Yan, 2012: Changes in impacts of climate extremes: human systems and ecosystems. In: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation [Field, C.B., V. Barros, T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, D.J. Dokken, K.L. Ebi, M.D. Mastrandrea, K.J. Mach, G.-K. Plattner, S.K. Allen, M. Tignor, and P.M. Midgley (eds.)]. A Special Report of Working Groups I and II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, and New York, NY, USA, pp. 231-290. (Available from https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/special-reports/srex/SREX_Full_Report.pdf)

How will climate change impact crops in East Asia? Get the #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Shyam Singh Yadav, Robert Redden, Jerry L. Hatfield, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Anthony J. W. Hall (eds.). 2011. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change. Sussex, UK: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

More sustainable rice farming is key to climate mitigation in East Asia. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Smith, P., D. Martino, Z. Cai, D. Gwary, H. Janzen, P. Kumar, B. McCarl, S. Ogle, F. O’Mara, C. Rice, B. Scholes, O. Sirotenko. 2007: Agriculture. In Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [B. Metz, O.R. Davidson, P.R. Bosch, R. Dave, L.A. Meyer (eds)], Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA. (Available from http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg3/ar4-wg3-chapter8.pdf)

Coastal parts of East Asia must prepare for sea level rise & flooding. #BigFacts via @cgiarclimate

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Yu B, Zhu T, Breisinger C, Hai NM. 2010. Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Policy Options for Adaptation: The Case of Vietnam IFPRI Discussion Paper 01015. http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01015.pdf.